Analysis of Black Lives Matter
On 26th February 2012, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood ‘watchperson’ shot and killed 17-year old black teenager Trayvon Martin. More than one year later, in July 2013, the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter was used for the first time in a Facebook post about the acquittal of George Zimmerman. Now, 5 years after the fatal shooting, this hashtag has been used more than 740874 times by 311525 different twitter users.
Written by Ada Pozo